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Hawaiian Modern
At the forefront of the postwar phenomenon known as tropical modernism, Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998) won recognition as the "master of Hawaiian architecture.” Although he practiced at a time of rapid growth and social change in Hawaii, Ossipoff criticized large-scale development and advocated environmentally sensitive designs, developing a distinctive form of architecture appropriate to the lush topography, light, and microclimates of the Hawaiian islands. This book is the first to focus on Ossipoff’s career, presenting significant new material on the architect and situating him within the tropical modernist movement and the cultural context of the Pacific region. The authors discuss ho...
The Samuel H. Kress Collection in the Honolulu Academy of Arts
"The Samuel H. Kress Collection has long been recognized as one of America's most important privately owned collections of European art, especially in the province of Italian painting of the Renaissance ... From the point of view of the Academy itself, the extension of what has heretofore been a very limited representation of the art of the Italian Renaissance is of incalculable value."--Introduction, p. 5
Visions of the Dharma
Varied representations depicting the major schools of Japanese Buddhism.
Finding Paradise
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Hokusai and Hiroshige
Reproduces 200 prints by the most important and prolific Japanese artists of the 19th century.
